my daughter in law has fallen for a scam
sorry for all the nugent threads but I aint been on here a while.
my daughter in law fell for a facebook advert that advertised one of those "do you want to earn £500 pw from home" malarkey ads.
So she didn't tell anyone and contacted the guy.
so this bloke basically says he sells stuff on ebay and to avoid tax, people pay for goods into my daughter in laws paypal account.
she goes to bank to take his cash out and a "courier" comes to collect the money and she keeps her cut.
Thankfully the bank saw strange activity and blocked her account until she provides proof of what has been going on.
unfortunately the guy has collected about £6K and whats left in her account was her £800 cut.
Anyone know what this guy was up to? the bank has told her to go to police, which she has.
will she get her money?
cheers
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Originally Posted by nugent wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:18
sorry for all the nugent threads but I aint been on here a while.
Hope she likes prison food. http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/hehe.gif http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/hehe.gif http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/hehe.gif
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Possibly he is offering items on ebay with no intension of supplying them and is using your daughter in law and others bank accounts as a way of getting his cash . When people complain theynot recieved the items , paypal will look to recover money from the accounts .
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Originally Posted by nugent wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:28
that's what I thought.
Even though £6k is a large amount of money , she is lucky it was picked up on quite quickly .
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Is she actually out of pocket?
I suppose it could be tax evasion: he could be a trader who should be registered for VAT but is evading (NOT avoiding) it by paying people to take payment for him so the bank doesn't see loads of money come in to his own account. There may well be income tax evasion in that, too. He's giving her more than 10% of the sales proceeds though so whatever he was evading, it was worth it to him. I imagine it is more likely that he was selling stolen goods and didn't want anyone to see the proceeds coming in, or something like that.
I've no idea if she would be in trouble for her involvement but it's hard to see how she could have thought it was legitimate, really.
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Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:31
Is she actually out of pocket?
shes not out of pocket. shes lucky to have kept screenshots of all the conversations on facebook
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Originally Posted by nugent wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:33
Is she actually out of pocket?
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Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:31
I suppose it could be tax evasion: he could be a trader who should be registered for VAT but is evading (NOT avoiding) it by paying people to take payment for him so the bank doesn't see loads of money come in to his own account. There may well be income tax evasion in that, too. He's giving her more than 10% of the sales proceeds though so whatever he was evading, it was worth it to him. I imagine it is more likely that he was selling stolen goods and didn't want anyone to see the proceeds coming in, or something like that.
Good, well done her. Although the fact that she was taking screenshots just shows that she knew it wasn't really kosher in the first place. I'm not going to criticise because I don't know her circumstances, but it was so obviously a scam, the guy didn't even try to dress it up as anything else!
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Originally Posted by nugent wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:33
Is she actually out of pocket?
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Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:31
I suppose it could be tax evasion: he could be a trader who should be registered for VAT but is evading (NOT avoiding) it by paying people to take payment for him so the bank doesn't see loads of money come in to his own account. There may well be income tax evasion in that, too. He's giving her more than 10% of the sales proceeds though so whatever he was evading, it was worth it to him. I imagine it is more likely that he was selling stolen goods and didn't want anyone to see the proceeds coming in, or something like that.
Be careful with those if they have her agreeing to assist in tax evasion .
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Originally Posted by bluethrough wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:37
Is she actually out of pocket?
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Originally Posted by nugent wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:33
I suppose it could be tax evasion: he could be a trader who should be registered for VAT but is evading (NOT avoiding) it by paying people to take payment for him so the bank doesn't see loads of money come in to his own account. There may well be income tax evasion in that, too. He's giving her more than 10% of the sales proceeds though so whatever he was evading, it was worth it to him. I imagine it is more likely that he was selling stolen goods and didn't want anyone to see the proceeds coming in, or something like that.
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Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 12:31
I've no idea if she would be in trouble for her involvement but it's hard to see how she could have thought it was legitimate, really.
that's a point. I told her, when she goes to the cop shop to just come clean, show them everything, shes young, play the act dull card. 2 kids and all that
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Yeh...sounds like a possible tax evasion scheme.
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Feedback would be proud of him.
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Originally Posted by Cathaze Blue wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 13:55
Yeh...sounds like a possible tax evasion scheme.
What I find alarming is that he was either brazenly discussing a very blatant, poorly-disguised tax evasion scheme; or he is up to something else even more sinister, and thought that tax evasion was legal and so used that as his cover story.
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Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 16:45
Yeh...sounds like a possible tax evasion scheme.
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Originally Posted by Cathaze Blue wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 13:55
What I find alarming is that he was either brazenly discussing a very blatant, poorly-disguised tax evasion scheme; or he is up to something else even more sinister, and thought that tax evasion was legal and so used that as his cover story.
Basicaly it is just a money laundering scam . Unfortunately it could be costly for Nugents relative .
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Seen this scam reported on Fake Britain about a year ago.
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Originally Posted by BlueWales wrote on Sat, 28 March 2015 20:18
Seen this scam reported on Fake Britain about a year ago.
That being the case then it's very selfish of you not to warn nugent about it before.
